arping(8)

NAME
arping - sends arp and/or ip pings to a given host

SYNOPSIS
arping [-h] [-q] [-v] [-r] [-d] [-0] [-s MAC] [-t MAC] [-c count] [-i interface] host

DESCRIPTION
The arping utility sends ARP and/or ICMP requests to the specified host and displays the replies. The host may be specified by its hostname, its IP address, or its MAC address.

One request is sent each second.

OPTIONS

-h  Displays a help message and exits.

-q  Does not display messages, except error messages.

-v  Verbose output.

-r  Raw output: only the MAC/IP address is displayed for each reply.

-d  Find duplicate replies.

-0  Use this option to ping with source IP address 0.0.0.0. Use this when you haven't configured your interface yet (so it has the IP 0.0.0.0, but libnet returns 0 for error so blah blah blah...)

-s MAC
    Set source MAC address.

-t MAC
    Set target MAC address to use when pinging IP address.

-c count
    Only send count requests.

-i interface
    Use the specified interface.

SEE ALSO

ping(8), arp(8), rarp(8)

AUTHOR

Arping was written by Marvin <marvin@rootbusters.net>.

The manual page was originally written by Brieuc "BBP" Jeunhomme <bbp@via.ecp.fr>.